In a landmark deal for the protection of nature, nations meeting at the COP15 UN Biodiversity Conference in Montreal have reached a deal to protect 30 percent of Earth for nature by 2030. The goal of the Kunming-Montreal Global biodiversity framework is to protect the planet’s rich yet threatened biodiversity. It also includes objectives for […]
The 23-year megadrought across what is now the Southwestern U.S. is driving up food prices, and threatening lifeways across the Navajo Nation.
Conservation groups rush to preserve camps across the United States as some properties sell to the highest bidder. Will they succeed?
Brazil’s tense presidential election has gone into a runoff that will take place on October 30, 2022. Environmentalists and experts globally are concerned about the Amazon rainforest should the far-right current president Jair Bolsonaro win re-election against Luiz Inácio “Lula” da Silva, a left-wing candidate and former president of Brazil. According to Bloomberg, Lula received […]
At a rate of every other day for the past 10 years, an environmental defender has lost their life protecting their home. That’s one sobering statistic from the latest Global Witness report “Decade of Defiance: Ten Years of Reporting Land and Environmental Activism Worldwide.” For every year since 2012, the environmental and human rights organization […]
On October 2, Braziilans will go to the polls to choose a new president. However, what’s at stake in this contest is more than who will lead Brazil for the next four years. What’s at stake, experts say, is the future of the Amazon rainforest. “I don’t say this lightly as a scientist, but this […]
In a landmark ruling, the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Committee has found that the Australian government failed to take timely and adequate measures to protect Indigenous Torres Strait Islanders against the adverse impacts of climate change and, by doing so, violated their rights. The Committee found the government had “violated their rights to enjoy […]
Your iPhone may contain gold linked to the destruction of the Amazon rainforest. A new report from Amazon Watch and the Association of Brazil’s Indigenous Peoples (APIB) published Monday reveals that the gold used by major tech and car companies including Apple, Tesla, Samsung, Microsoft, Intel, Sony, Volkswagen, Ford and General Motors could have been […]
A new study from scientists and Indigenous organizations has found that many parts of the Amazon rainforest are already at their tipping point, meaning they face a point of no return when it comes to recovery. “The tipping point is not a future scenario but rather a stage already present in some areas of the […]
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